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By Melanie Springer Mock
My first encounter with Christian celebrity occurred in 1983, when Tony Campolo preached to a humid Lehigh University gymnasium packed with Mennonite teens. I already knew Campolo’s sermons, having listened to them on tape cassettes my parents played during road trips.
By Melanie Springer Mock
My first encounter with Christian celebrity occurred in 1983, when Tony Campolo preached to a humid Lehigh University gymnasium packed with Mennonite teens. I already knew Campolo’s sermons, having listened to them on tape cassettes my parents played during road trips.
By Anna Redsand
Originally published 16 February 2021
A Review of Decolonizing Evangelicalism by Randy S. Woodley and Bo C. Sanders
Shortly before he passed on, my friend, Diné (Navajo) scholar Larry Emerson, said to me, “You should write about decolonizing Christianity.
With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Rich Villodas
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Kristyn Komarnicki
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Ron Sider
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Brandi Miller
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Candice Benbow
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Jenny Yang
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Cole Arthur Riley
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With Nikki Toyama-Szeto and Drew Jackson
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By Natalia Kohn, Nemi Vega Quiñones, and Kristy Garza Robinson
Originally published January 15, 2019
Esther was a Jewish woman being raised by a cousin named Mordecai. The Jews were an ethnic minority community displaced and dispersed all over the provinces of King Xerxes of Persia.
By Liz Cooledge Jenkins
In a church I used to attend, a sermon series through Paul’s letters to the Thessalonian church landed us one Sunday morning in 2 Thessalonians 3:10: “The one who is unwilling to work shall not eat’” (NIV).
By Chanequa Walker-Barnes
Originally published September 24, 2018
“No one with a brain really believes in religion,” the man declared.
It was an odd way to respond to my revelation that I was a seminary professor.
By Felicia Melian
“I hate Trump,” I blurted out to a friend who was complaining about how emotional politics had become in recent days. We were socially distanced on lawn chairs in my driveway for this conversation, but—despite my best efforts—I could not distance myself emotionally.
By Jean-Pierre Isbouts
Originally published October 2, 2017
Father, hallowed be your name. Your Kingdom come. Our daily bread give us today. And forgive us our debts, for we forgive our debtors.
By Matthew Tyson
It is through labor that we, as humans, make the world. In doing so, we make ourselves. We make reality. In this way, to solely commodify your labor and sell it in service of profit and capitalist competition can alienate you from your labor, and thus from yourself.
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